Thursday, October 25, 2012

Getting Ready for Open Studio - Off the Wall Friday

Well the last few days have been a world wind. I still haven't gotten the hang of working full time and keeping the house going and getting time to sew ---- ohh and read my favorite blogs. sighhhh - I really do need a wife.

Also it doesn't help matters much that I spent a whole evening trying to track down my journal quilts that I had done years ago. I wanted to re-purpose them into book markers or whatever to sell at the Open Studio event this week. What??? I didn't tell you there was an Open Studio event this weekend?? Well you're just gonna have to wait to hear about that in the next post!

Anyways. . . . I never did find the journal quilties - even though I swear they were in the cedar chest!! But I DID find my bag of dupioni silk pieces. I love dupioni silk - I mean all that texture and saturated color - what's there not to love?? That bag has been lost 2 years so it was a good time to find it. All day at work today I thought of uses for them and settled on mini book marker quilts. I just started them tonight but hope to get a good series done in time for Saturday. Here is 1 and a half of them - I might double the batting in the next - hmmm I'm not sure! I love how they are quick and pretty and full of texture - plus you can really use them and I can sell them cheapie.

Taking care of the kids and family (even though they are teenagers) is a full time job in and of itself. I hope you are able to hold it all together! Your post has more energy today than I do (head cold - blah)! Cute bookmarks. Good luck getting it all together!